P18 POP-UP // Anna Tihanyi: Dreams Traumas Memories
Schedule
Sat May 18 2024 at 07:00 pm to Sun May 19 2024 at 02:00 am
Location
The Workshop | Budapest, BU
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P18 POP-UPDreams Traumas Memories: Anna Tihanyi’s Cinematic Exploration of the Female Psyche
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As an initiative of a collaborative pop-up showcase-series, The Workshop invites creators from various fields of arts and culture to take over its P18 Gallery space and dream up installations that engage, excite, encourage, and inspire unexpected encounters, thought-provoking conversations, and transformative experiences through the power of Art.
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Who is a woman? Anna Tihanyi’s upcoming pop-up showcase at The Workshop’s P18 Gallery explores the various self- and role-identities that modern women assume today. By revealing real and imagined situations and drawing on her narrative, Anna’s women take the viewer on a journey through the female experience of questioning, reflecting, and acting on one’s personal history, male-female dynamics, as well as inner doubts and desires. Through a selection from the artist’s oeuvre, the showcase features works from the artist’s first-ever public exhibition to her most recent series of collages. Join us and gain insight into the landscape of a(ny) woman’s mind.
The prints on view – analog collages / giclée prints on baryt paper/ giclée prints on canvas, in various sizes – are available for purchase.
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What to expect?
? Join the opening of the show at 7PM
? Mingling with tunes, craft cocktails & mezze
? Enjoy our peaceful inner garden until 10 pm
Dreams Traumas Memories: Anna Tihanyi’s Cinematic Exploration of the Female Psyche
Anna Tihanyi’s pop-up showcase at The Workshop’s P18 Gallery presents a selection from the artist’s series, depicting her lifelong investigation into the intricate, inquisitive, and at times unsettling landscape of the female psyche. Her cinematic narrative style converges individual experiences into universal realizations regarding dreams, traumas, memories, and deeds. The presentation stands as a brief assessment of Anna’s reflection on how her own perspective on the feminine experience and its visual implementation has evolved over time.
The photographic series “Hommage á Lichtenstein” (2008-2009), Anna’s first public presentation, is a thoughtful exploration of Roy Lichtenstein's iconic style through her photographic vision. By incorporating Pop Art sensibilities, she recreates and reinterprets the original paintings in contexts that resonate with her personally, all the while keeping the analog nature of distinctive components from the original works, such the speech bubbles, details of tears, and directions of the gaze.
The image of Franny, a woman sitting at a diner with a man (2012) depicts a moment of fragile introspection and revelation that includes both anguish and happiness. There are times when we sense a “kind of comfort inside, almost a revelation, that opens our soul, but at the same time we also feel a kind of pain, the sensation of an absolute, irremediable loss. A sweet catastrophe.”
In “Berlin bhf.” (2014), Anna presents fictional stations of life that she herself had to pause for or go through at some point in her life. The images are accompanied by words from Hungarian authors who describe their experiences in Berlin, the city recognized historically for its transitory nature. Rootlessness and alienation pervade the scenes, positioning the woman between a sense of permanent non-belonging and a wish to be integrated.
“Cycle of Womanhood” (2019) is a staged portrait photography series centered on feminine qualities and stereotypes, featuring the same woman, actress Andrea Osvárt as model, in a variety of settings. The series explores the complexities of female experience and complements the spiritual map of the woman, challenging the homogenous and universal ideas of womanhood.
The photographic installation titled “Breastplate (Choshen),” is a handsewn, wearable artwork, made from B&W 35mm negative slides from Anna’s personal archives. As a result, the piece is a direct metaphor for how collective and personal history and memories hold our identity together. Similarly to Biblical times where such garment originated, the shield serves a protective function; nevertheless, the transparency of slides suggests the fragility of any such guard.
While the overall focus of her “Budapest A-ZS” (2023) series is to provide an overview of personal experiences and materials from the collective memory that shine a light on the phases and faces of the Budapest she grew up in, the selected works featured now do so by emphasizing the evolution of such inner stories with women characters being in the focus.
About the artist
Anna Tihanyi, an award-winning fine art photographer from Budapest, is renowned for her cinematic scenes that intricately weave compelling visual narratives exploring female self and identity through memory processing. Her talent has garnered her prestigious photography awards globally, as she continues to showcase her work in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally. Currently, she is focusing on new projects in Budapest as part of the Budapest Art Factory, a non-profit artistic collective.
For more, visit Anna’s website: begumchat.com
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Where is it happening?
The Workshop, Paulay Ede utca 16, Budapest 1061, Magyarország,Budapest, HungaryEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
